Creeping mahonia is a new native plant for our garden, added to the native plant bed in April. I have a couple of these and they seem to have settled in nicely, although they are not creeping just yet. These short shrubs get nice yellow flowers in the spring that are popular with pollinators and blue-purple berries in the summer/fall that birds will love.

My future plans for these plants are to water them some next summer to be sure they have established themselves well. I will watch for them to start to creeping so I can take some divisions and spread them around more and give some away.